2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour*
1/3 cup nonfat dry milk powder
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp double-acting baking powder
1 tsp salt
6 tbsp solid vegetable shortening
Directions
*To vary the mix, replace half of the flour with whole-wheat flour or
cornmeal. Combine flour, dry milk, sugar, baking powder, salt and
shortening in food processor. Pulse until mixture is well blended and
smooth. Store in container with tight-fitting cover in cool place for
up to 4 weeks. Stir well before using.
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Servings: 1 servings
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The History of Recipes
Historians have tracked the existance of recipes far back into the far past, in fact as far back into recorded history as the ancient Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. In practice though, in the main part, these early cookbooks were just very simple pictorial instructions for preparing meals.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe found, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are a few stone tablets in Sumerian which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made anyone who drank it feel exhilarated and blissful. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we find a couple of books which date from the 14th Century ; a recipe book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these two books are not about the spicy food that we all know today, but instead accounts of the types of food prepared by the cooks of the nobility of the period. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought us a variety of spices and herbs from the Middle-East, such as basil and coriander. The introduction of these new tastes led to an increase in cookery books, the majority of which are kept safe in private libraries. Over the following few hundred years, the families of Europe strove to serve the most exotic banquets, and as a result cooks and their recipe collections were highly sought after. Notwithstanding that, it was during the nineteenth century the formal cooking and cookery books reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the USA, dedicated the best years of their lives to collecting, trying out, and writing down recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. By the arrival of the 20th century, cookbooks were greatly in demand mostly due to increased literacy, people having more free time and being a little richer. The introduction of television gave us TV chefs and the accompanying recipe books. Which pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, permitting everyone to search through massive numbers of recipes such as those found on sites such as this. |
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